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Gent   /dʒɛnt/   Listen
Gent

noun
1.
Informal abbreviation of 'gentleman'.
2.
A boy or man.  Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad.  "There's a fellow at the door" , "He's a likable cuss" , "He's a good bloke"
3.
Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry.  Synonyms: Gand, Ghent.



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"Gent" Quotes from Famous Books



... noticed that the night crew had arranged themselves in chronological order. The elderly gent spoke first. He'd been the night doorman but now he was stripped of his admiral's gold braid and he looked just like any other ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... position (the Hygienic Barber Shop. Gent's manicure, 50c.) offered unlimited social opportunities, would assume a gay indifference. "They's plenty boys begging to take me out every hour in the day. Swell lads, too. I ain't waiting round for any ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber
... died, and on which George, Duke and Elector of Brunswick, usurped the English throne, there was very little rejoicing in Oxford.... There was a sermon at St. Marie's by Dr. Panting, Master of Pembroke.... He is an honest gent. His sermon took no notice, at most very little, of the Duke of Brunswick.' Hearne's Remains, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... Bowsing nowt but claretwine. Garn! Have a glint, do. Gum, I'm jiggered. And been to barber he have. Too full for words. With a railway bloke. How come you so? Opera he'd like? Rose of Castile. Rows of cast. Police! Some H2O for a gent fainted. Look at Bantam's flowers. Gemini. He's going to holler. The colleen bawn. My colleen bawn. O, cheese it! Shut his blurry Dutch oven with a firm hand. Had the winner today till I tipped him a dead cert. The ruffin cly the nab of Stephen Hand as ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... It's easy to let them for the month after Christmas, because of the pantomimes. Only say at once, because Bunce is nagging me day after day. I don't want nobody's wife and baby to have to do for, and 'd sooner have a Parliament gent like yourself ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope


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